Agriculture Industry

• Arya Plans to Strengthen Presence in Telangana by Assisting Farmers with Loans & Increasing its Warehouse Capacity

  Arya, a post-harvest agritech and fintech company, wants to expand its presence in Telangana by increasing its warehousing capacity to 2.5 lakh MT as farm activities speed up across the state. It also intends to concentrate on making commodity-backed financing more accessible to farmers in…

• Best Crop Science LLP Becomes First Agrochemical Company in India to Manufacture Trifloxystrobin Technical

  Best Crop Science LLP (BCS), a leading player and one of the largest manufacturers of agro-inputs, has announced that Central Insecticides Board & Registration Committee has granted a registration for indigenous manufacturing of Trifloxystrobin Technical u/s 9(3). With this new addition, BCS shall become the…

• Tata Chemicals Wins Dun & Bradstreet Award for ESG Performance in the Manufacturing Category

  Mumbai, July21, 2021:Tata Chemicals Ltd. has beenconferred with Dun & Bradstreet’s ESG performance Award in the Manufacturing category at the virtually held ‘India’s Top 500 Companies 2021’ Awards.…

• Nurture.Farm – A Digital Platform for Sustainable Agriculture Scales Up to Become Part of the Openag™ Network

  Nurture.farm – a digital platform for growers, farming communities and food systems, is scaling and expanding its global reach as a part of the OpenAg™ network. The OpenAg™ network was conceived by UPL Ltd, a world leader in sustainable agriculture.…

• Plantix’s Digital Solutions Improve Small-Scale Farming and Agri-Retail Businesses

  Digital transformation is rapidly taking over the Indian agriculture sector and Plantix is a front-runner in leading this transformation. What makes this startup stand apart is their mission to connect small-scale farmers and suppliers in one digital ecosystem with customised solutions, reliable products and trusted…

• IFFCO Kisan Contributes in Central Government Scheme by Creating 17 FPOs in Gujarat

  IFFCO Kisan Sanchar Ltd (a subsidiary of IFFCO) is in the process of setting up 17 Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) in Gujarat. These FPOs are being established in association with National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) and National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) will…

• Aquaculture Startup Aquaconnect Raises $4M Pre-Series A Round

  Aquaconnect South Asia's largest aqua farmers’ network, announced today that it has raised USD 4 million (INR 29.7 Crores) in a pre-Series A round led by Rebright Partners and Flourish Ventures. AgFunder and 6G Capital also participated in this round, along with existing investors Omnivore…

• Syngenta Dedicates CT Scan Centre in Ambah Civil Hospital in Morena District, Madhya Pradesh

  Syngenta India, a leading agriculture company dedicated a state-of-the-art CT Scan center in Ambah Civil Hospital for the people of Morena District in Madhya Pradesh.…

• SLCM Gets Prestigious European Grant for AI/ML-Based Quality App for Agri Commodities

  The New Delhi headquartered agri technology and warehousing solutions conglomerate Sohan Lal Commodity Management (SLCM) has received a technical assistance grant of EUR 125,901 (Rs 1.11 crore) from the Technical Assistance Facility of Incofin agRIF fund (agTAF) and the Smallholder Safety Net Upscaling Programme (SSNUP)…

• SLCM Wins Madhya Pradesh Contract for Management of Agri Commodities

  The New Delhi-headquartered agri technology and warehousing solutions conglomerate, Sohan Lal Commodity Management (SLCM), has received a record contract as a service provider for the Preservation, Management and Security (PMS) of food grain stock from the State Government of Madhya Pradesh.…

• WayCool Foods to Expand Its Footprint into Western India & Middle East

  WayCool Foods, a Chennai-based agritech firm, has intentions to expand into western India and the Middle East.…

• NCML Commissions Grain Storage Silos with INR 800 Mn Investments in Haryana

  National Commodities Management Services Limited (NCML), [formerly National Collateral Management Services Limited], India's largest private-sector agriculture post-harvest management company, today inaugurated its public Silo storage facility at Sonipat in Haryana.…

• Bharat Certis AgriScience Ltd. Launches Six New Products

  Bharat Certis AgriScience Ltd. (BCA), a group company of Mitsui & Co., Ltd, Japan launched six new products Topsin, Nissorun, Delfin, Tofosto, Buldozer and Aghaat through a digital launch event named “Udaan” among its distributors. It was attended by nearly 1000 distributors of the company…

• Krishika Kisaan Mart: One-Stop Shop for Affordable & High Quality Farm Inputs

  Krishika provides free expert guidance to the farmers and regularly organises Kisaan Goshthis to educate the farmers…

• Latest Agriculture News: Pokkali Rice Farming, New Tata Electric Vehicles, FICCI Conference, and more

  Get the latest agriculture news under one roof here.…

• Samunnati Launches FPOnEXT - India’s First Open Agri Network

  Samunnati, a specialized Agri Value Chain enabler announced the launch of India’s first Open Agri Network, FPOnEXT, - an exclusive network of entities that are working with the FPO ecosystem via an affiliation programme, which offers unique benefits to the members.…

• Insecticides India Limited to Manufacture Two Important Insecticides in India

  Insecticides India Limited will start producing two chief insecticides in India to reduce dependence on China.…

• Unnati Partners With Satyukt to Offer Innovative Farming Solutions Using Satellite Technology

  Underlining its vision to transform the existing farming operations in India, Unnati, a FinTech-driven agriculture ecosystem has joined hands with Satyukt, an innovative satellite data analytics company to help farmers enhance their productivity and promote the best farming practices using satellite technology.…

• India’s Most Innovative, First-Ever, Proprietary AI-Technologies & Digitally-Enabled on-Site Modular Solar Cold Storage Room

  Like other developing countries, the Philippine agriculture sector has been suffering from the high post-harvest losses. In the high-value crops alone, the losses can easily reach 20% to 40%. Firstly, our hard-working small farmers, particularly in the rural and remote islands, are unable to preserve…

• Krishi Jagran to Launch its New Initiative, MICROSITE of Coromandel & Host a Webinar on Digital Empowerment of Farmers

  Krishi Jagran is excited to announce a webinar on Digital Empowerment of Farmers & the launch of Krishi Jagran’s New Microsite of Coromandel, moderated by Editor in Chief of Krishi Jagran and Agriculture World, M.C. Dominic on 24th June, 2021 at 11 am.…

• FMC Corporation names Ravi Annavarapu as President of its India Business

  FMC Corporation today announced the appointment of Ravi Annavarapu as the new president of FMC India, effective July 1, 2021. Annavarapu will be responsible for the company’s business strategy and performance in India. He will succeed Pramod Thota, who is taking on the role of…

• June 17, 2021 – Latest Agriculture Industry News

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• Maharashtra inks MoU with US to promote Agri-business investment

  The Maharashtra Agriculture Department has signed a MoU with the United States through the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) – Foreign Agricultural Service to give the farmers’ access to data on market information, improve the agricultural value chains and facilitate agribusiness investment.…

• Aragen announce multi-year partnership with FMC Corporation - aims at accelerating Agro-chemical pipeline

  Aragen Life Sciences (formerly, GVK BIO), a leading Contract Research and Development Organization (CRDO), head quartered out of Hyderabad, India, announced a strategic partnership with FMC Corporation, a global leader in innovative agricultural science, that provides solutions towards crop protection, plant health, and professional pest…

• India will use corn as a feedstock to make ethanol

  India's efforts at agricultural diversification are expected to be aided by plans to use a large amount of corn (maize) to produ1ce ethanol for its fuel blending program, which is scheduled to mix 20% ethanol with motor spirit by 2025-26.…

• India’s First Hindi Agri E-commerce website: BigHaat launches its website in Hindi

  In its aim to reach out to 10 million farmers by next year, India’s largest Agri eCommerce platform BigHaat has launched a full-fledged Hindi website.…

• FMC India reiterates commitment to sustainable agriculture through product stewardship awareness campaign

  In line with its commitment to promote sustainable agriculture, FMC India, a leading agricultural sciences company in India, celebrated World Environment Day with a nation-wide campaign to highlight the value of stewardship among farmers, as well as the planting of trees across the country.…

• Union Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister Shri D V Sadananda Gowda flagged off Nano Urea dispatch to Karnataka

  Union Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister Shri D V Sadananda Gowda today flagged off Nano Urea dispatch to Karnataka. The minister also promised IFFCO to award land to start a Nano Urea production unit near Bangalore Airport.…

• Syngenta Taps Banks for Shanghai IPO at $60 Billion Valuation

  Syngenta Group Co., the agriculture giant owned by China National Chemical Corp., has picked banks for an initial public offering on Shanghai’s Nasdaq-style STAR board, according to people familiar with the matter.…

• NCML Announces Corporate Name Change to National Commodities Management Services Limited

  India's largest private-sector agriculture post-harvest management company, erstwhile National Collateral Management Services Limited (NCML), has announced that the company will begin operating under a new name - National Commodities Management Services Limited, effective immediately.…